Actually this machine looks and functions in a similar way the the lipsnersmith rti excell1100. A machine coild be made to use any fluid you choose but will be more or less effective based on the details of speed fluid use etc.

Fuel injectors would work..you need a hi pressure pump..a regulator and a pulse generator to complete a system.
Last time we priced the hfe chemical this uses it cost around 1400 usd for a 4 gallon bucket.

Franks system is a brilliant piece of engineering and the new Mullers are better for having it. I was refering to Mullers own website description of his personal earlier version. Andreas posted a link a while ago.

More light equals less exposure time for one thing. And the big machines have the light some distance away so the distance creates losses. They also process the light based on the machine's settings. There are filter wheels in the light path that can cost some light. And there are also several diffu...

Andreas has an FDL-60, and I used to have some of them, so I thought I would share some ideas about a conversion. The film transport in the FDL is quite good, so if possible, we would like to use it as-is. The camera system is easily removed from the chassis, so that is the first step. We will need ...

The scanner I am working on is a work in progress, and is not ready to be deployed except on an experimental basis. Having said that, it does work and can produce some very nice results. It is built with the following subsystems -Camera -Optical -Lighting -Trigger -Motion Control -Control Panel -Cha...

Thanks for posting that David. That looks just like the one we used to have...oh, wait. That is the one we used to have. It was with a transfer house in Santa Ana Ca that we bought out back in 1999 I think. Before that I don't know. And we used it for quite a while, until we bought our first FDL-60 ...

excuse me if I remain more than a little skeptical of the benefit of a 5K scan of Super8 It was Justin from Canada-Toronto, I think? who posted a link to a super8 transfer he had done on the LG5K. I expect it was a well shot piece of film, and I thought it looked pretty good, resolution-wise. I hop...

Frank and Roger, you guys are right of course. It will be a difficult task to do any support for an open source machine. That's one reason I haven't really started yet. I am really still building the machine, and trying to figure out all the tech involved. It has been a lot to learn, as I am sure yo...

Roger, as one of your (very) early customers, I am very appreciative of what you have done, and continue to do. I think the Retro machine is a stroke of genius. You have reduced the complexity down to a level that allows most people to make very good transfers. Thank you. Certainly building a scanne...

Andreas-- don't throw away the FDL-60 yet. My next version has a central spine for the light, gate, and camera that can be used within a larger chassis. The idea is to make it modular, and adaptable to any transport. I have a spare Spirit chassis that will eventually be utilized in this way. The Xen...